The Waterpark Mom - August 27th - Shoe Dreams Part II
August 27
8 am
Meds - Y.
Beast Sightings - Y.
Conversations with Waterpark Mom - Y.
Waterpark Mom and I chat about a dream - how I told Beast about Marianne and her shoe museum and how Marianne let me borrow cherry clogs and purple boots. The plan was to start the day twice (on the same day but wearing different shoes).
"I'm not sure how long I'm here for, and you want to debate footwear?" Beast asked.
"Are those new?" I pointed to Beast's sneakers. They look dressy and are not typical Beast shoes. "Do you ghost boyfriends have special stores where you go shopping? Or do you go to the same places as the rest of us?"
"I don't remember how I got them. Do you know why we're still at the high school? Didn't we already graduate?"
It should have been an easy answer about the shoes and school. But my words didn't come out right.
I saw the sun reflected on his summertime shades. There is a way he used to say it, and it became a joke between us but also a kind of mantra too. "There are only sunglasses for summer," he said.
I hear him say it again the way he did before, but I can't laugh, even in the dream, I faked a smile.
When I tell all of this to Waterpark Mom, she says those wise kind of words I have come to expect. Sometimes they sound corny, but I need them. "A day goes as well as it can." And then she asks me what happened to the boots, and if that day went better.
I shake my head. "I wonder what it would have been like, clogs and boots are very different." Her eyes twinkle in that way they do. "I woke up before I got the chance to put them on, but he did say I looked hot in the clogs."
8 am
Meds - Y.
Beast Sightings - Y.
Conversations with Waterpark Mom - Y.
Waterpark Mom and I chat about a dream - how I told Beast about Marianne and her shoe museum and how Marianne let me borrow cherry clogs and purple boots. The plan was to start the day twice (on the same day but wearing different shoes).
"I'm not sure how long I'm here for, and you want to debate footwear?" Beast asked.
"Are those new?" I pointed to Beast's sneakers. They look dressy and are not typical Beast shoes. "Do you ghost boyfriends have special stores where you go shopping? Or do you go to the same places as the rest of us?"
"I don't remember how I got them. Do you know why we're still at the high school? Didn't we already graduate?"
It should have been an easy answer about the shoes and school. But my words didn't come out right.
I saw the sun reflected on his summertime shades. There is a way he used to say it, and it became a joke between us but also a kind of mantra too. "There are only sunglasses for summer," he said.
I hear him say it again the way he did before, but I can't laugh, even in the dream, I faked a smile.
When I tell all of this to Waterpark Mom, she says those wise kind of words I have come to expect. Sometimes they sound corny, but I need them. "A day goes as well as it can." And then she asks me what happened to the boots, and if that day went better.
I shake my head. "I wonder what it would have been like, clogs and boots are very different." Her eyes twinkle in that way they do. "I woke up before I got the chance to put them on, but he did say I looked hot in the clogs."
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